Has listings of Ann Arbor restaurants, etc. and can browse restaurants by cuisine type. However, search seems absent and very little additional info about restaurants except link to Google map. Beware of advertising links.

14 February 2006

I respectfully disagree with the guest reviewer's review of Pacific Rim on www.nicetaste.com. While I agree the decor is much improved, I don't think the same about the food. The reincarnation of Kana into Pacific Rim brought a huge shift of purely Korean food to a strange mix of Asiatic medely. While a few individual dishes may be good, the overall blend of tastes is erratic and clashing.

Tucked away in the apex of the Colonnade shopping arc on Eisenhower is a Chinese/Thai restaurant called Paradise. I had never heard of the place until I switched jobs and my current coworkers started raving about the place. So, one day I went, and well, it's not bad. I wouldn't say that it's anywhere in the same league as some of the Asian restaurants reviewed at www.nicetaste.com, but it's alright for a middle of the road outing.

12 February 2006

livejournal.com has an Ann Arbor community that anyone can join (for free). The organizer wants the site to be an "an open forum to discuss events & issues, post hints and helps, and generally keep one another up-to-date on things in Ann Arbor, Ypsi, Dexter, Saline, and so on" but they would like to keep it free from various forms of "ill-will."

Thanks goes to nerdtech for scanning in menus of restaurants in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. He's even set up rss feeds for them as well. (A2 & Y). One note - nerdtech hasn't added any menus since 4/18/05 but he says that he's always looking for help from folks like us. Just send him the jpg at menus at nerdtech dot com.

11 February 2006

Well, this restaurant is so spicy that the you can see a faint white smoke eminate from the kitchen at the back of the corridor-like dining room. I should have listened to htchan's warning at www.nicetaste.com when he said "Think you can eat spicy? Think again." Now, I'm not one who normally eats spicy food but my mother-in-law, who adores spicy food, can't stop raving about this place. It's the first place in 25 years that she deems worth the money, and she even proclaimed the food is better than her own. So if you have that finicky eater in your family, you should bring them to this little restaurant with the big punch! As for me, my lungs are still recouperating. Enjoy!

10 February 2006

Burger joint - right? Well, they offer a lot more that just burgers, but I have to say it's still the burgers that keep me coming back. Whether it's a mushroom, BBQ, or blue cheese burger, you can't find a better burger in town. I know that flies in the face of the Blimby fanatics, but Blimpy's is just plain too greasy. Red Robin's Ann Arbor restaurant isn't dripping with grease, and the restaurant frequently offers dinner and a movie for 2 for just $25.99. That's a bargain with today's prices.